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The Roxburghe ballads . living so easy, Their Stomachs are squesie, [w-c. They know not what they ail;But His not so, etc. 66 When ere they have been too free, And happen with child to be, The Doctor, be sure, is sent for to cure This two-legged tympany : [«.,. swelling. And thus the physiciaDMust hide their condition,For fear they spoyl their sale,But His not so, etc. 77 Theres Margery, Ciss and Prue, Right country girls and true, Nay Bridget and Jone, full well it is known, Theyl dabble it in the dew :They trip it together,And fear not the weather, Although both rain and hail:Full well you knoio, aivay we go,Through frost and snow, when winds do blow, To carry the milking-payl. 88 Printed for P. Brooksby, at the Golden-Ball in Pye- Corner.[Black-letter. Cuts: Milkmaid, post; 3 Ladies, pp. 16, 26. Date, 1685-88.] 29 [Roxburghe Coll., II. 205; Pepys, III. 45 ; Jersey, I. 21 ; Euing, 137.] Ci)e $appp i^usbanDman: ©r, Ccmmrp Innocence* To A PLEASANT NEW COURT TlJNE. This may be Printed. R,[ichard] P[ocock~|..
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